Dangerous dust conditions Causes Explosion

In a recent story, Explosion at Georgia Plant and Louisiani killed 13 people.

The fines would be the third-highest in the history of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and include $5 million for the explosion near Savannah and $3.7 million for the plant in Gramercy, La., where authorities found violations a month after the Feb. 7 blast in Georgia that injured dozens of workers.

The investigators are still probing in the cause of the Explosion and carefully evaluating OSHA’s findings.

An initial investigation traced the explosion to sugar dust that ignited like gunpowder in a basement area, used to load sugar onto conveyor belts to be transported for packaging, beneath the refinery's 100-foot storage silos.

Three refinery workers are now hospitalized with severe burnS.

OSHA's report comes days before a Senate subcommittee holds a Tuesday hearing on combustible dust hazards focused on the Georgia explosion.

In this scenario, there is a need to force OSHA to adopt stricter standards on dust hazards. OSHA officials say existing regulations already cover them and rushing to enact new ones won't necessarily make workplaces safer.

This incident could have been avoided by going for the Job Hazard Analysis Safety kit,